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Artist:
HAYWARD, CHARLES
Title:
Live In Japan Volume One: Escape From Europe
Label:
LOCUS SOLUS (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
LSR 001CD
A trilogy of live CDs, only released in Japan by Locus Solus.
Volume One
is a mostly solo affair from the legendary drummer and This Heat founder, Charles Hayward (drums, voice, tapes, melodica). Makoto Nomura (piano, melodica) and Akira Toyonaga (guitar) guest on one track. Recorded April, 1996. "Solo performance in his unique style. He sings, plays drums, operates two or three cassette players by means of an MTR, and a tape machine with foot switches, all at the same time."
Artist:
HAYWARD, CHARLES
Title:
Live In Japan Volume Two: Double Agent(s)
Label:
LOCUS SOLUS (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
LSR 002CD
"Very exciting live improvisations with Tatsuya Yoshida (drums & voice), Yoshihide Otomo (turntables, CD player & sampler), Keiji Haino (guitar & voice), and Peter Brotzmann (tenor saxophone & clarinets)." Recorded April, 1996.
Artist:
HAYWARD, CHARLES
Title:
Live In Japan Volume Three: Near + Far
Label:
LOCUS SOLUS (JAPAN)
Format:
CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
LSR 003CD
"Tracks 1-4 are from his solo performances, songs that weren't able to be released on
Escape From Europe
. Tracks 5-7 are new songs composed in the studio by remixing and overdubbing sessions with Tatsuya Yoshida, Yoshihide Otomo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi. Track 8 features Hayward singing with a melodica, recorded in a temple garden by Tatsuya Yoshida." As above, recorded April 1996.
Artist:
HAYWARD, CHARLES
Title:
Switch On War
Label:
SUB ROSA (BELGIUM)
Format:
CD
Price:
$13.00
Catalog #:
SR 040CD
Hayward was a founding member of the seminal UK group This Heat, then later formed Camberwell Now.
Switch On War
was originally issued in 1991 and is now reissued on its original label, after a long vacuum of unavailability. "
Switch on War
a dream state synthesis of nights watching live TV coverage of the 1st Gulf War, the reduction of colours to an electron midnight blue, the long periods of nothing really happening, the contrasting landscapes, (the desert, the city at night, the newsroom), the sudden hurtling through space, through a doorway, a camera on the nose of a missile, the bearing of silent witness slowly turning into complicity and mute acquiescence. At the back of the mind the thought that all this would soon be reduced to snapshot memories, archive, newsreel, history. Originally devised as a performance for the Club Integral, in South London, at the height of the military activity,
Switch on War
was a harsh and brutal response to the media coverage of the conflict informed by a grotesque and disconcerting anti-music aesthetic heavily influenced by the disorienting, overloaded sound world of Space Invaders arcades. The CD version was recorded binaurally some weeks later, live in a disused morgue, as the war came to its stalemate close. By this time the anger had a bleak streak of sadness, a distorted expressionist requiem. This CD had the life expectancy of a magazine article or some such, no more than a year and it would be archive, a mere souvenir." -- Charles Hayward
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